Quotes by Edith Wharton

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere

Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie